I feel like we need to do daily reminders that congressmen like Jordan are essentially alone and left out in the cold by the GOP. Now that we're past the election, it's time to explain how the GOP is 85-90% the opposite side of the Dems coin and are working overtime to fuck Trump and MAGA. Jordan, Nunes, Gaetz, and some others are and have been fighting for us, but they're literally the bottom rung of the current GOP ladder. The fact that Nunes was even able to do what he did with the russia/obamagate story is the stuff of legends.
I disagree. I think these ones actually believe what they write and say. A pede once commented, “the indoctrinators are the most indoctrinated.” A lot of these people were early 30s when obama came around. They came up career-wise in neocon vs traditional democrat kabuki, hating neocons like frankly most did, and finally got their hero Obama. They themselves were unknowingly indoctrinated by the deep state and then each other, to cherish the system and the players in it. Then 2016 happened and the system they were told to love was under attack by orange man. They freaked. They hunt down any possible angle that could even maybe sorta stump trump, but fail. They can’t even begin to wonder if they’re on the wrong side because that would detonate their entire community and career. The dissonance is too strong to let that happen, so now they are in an absolute rage that Trump “lost” (because they rushed to say so) and isn’t conceding yet. I could be wrong, but I think in this video in particular, were witnessing real panic.
Spez: https://thedonald.win/p/11QRfa0ihs/if-you-ever-wonder-why-people-on/c/
Do you think the authors know what they’re doing? Or are they mindlessly detailing their own cognitive dissonance?
Justice is putting the situation on the scales and meting out the appropriate consequence; in this instance, a life for a life. Vengeance in this context is becoming a murderer yourself out of chimp rage. No one is arguing that isn't a "justified" and natural thought - of course it is. That doesn't mean humans should do it. We want to stamp out darkness, not become it.
It would be alright to digitize after the count, if you use it as a duplicate. I'd like to see two people calling out/verifying the vote, then two others log the vote manually then add it to a database, all while a camera that can see the entire process, and is publicly accessible, either logs a vote through ballot recognition software or two people log the vote from the visual. You can use the digitized count in the database to get the results out quickly, but it must match up to the manual count and the camera count. Ink fingers after voting that stains our skin for weeks, like in India.
I guess I've always seen Operation Paperclip as a grey area. Do we know if Von Braun was an ardent Nazi? What were the conditions of his manufacturing facility - did he request German workers and was sent concentration camp slaves? Did he resist and was told to stfu and make rockets? Were the prisoners mistreated? Was he for or against mistreatment? Did he laugh maniacally when his rockets fell on British citizens, or chalk it up as misfortune (like every power did when they did heinous shit - Chuchill and Dresden, etc.)? How did Von Braun's "flipping" to the USA and his subsequent career play into the Cold War and it's outcome? Are we able to forgive those who repent, if they've truly asked forgiveness/given themselves to something bigger than themselves? Did he?
This has always stood in stark contrast to say something like granting immunity to the physician leaders of Japan's Unit 731, which wasn't building rockets but performing horrific biological research on Chinese test subjects. The information was deemed valuable and, to get back to where we started, was initiated and approved by a US general, General MacArthur.
TY u/txladyvoter for your rapid summaries :)
That's a great counter example.